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Monthly Archives: March 2014

Hi peeps! Like I told you in my last post, I baked some brownies for my friend’s birthday. They were so good that many people asked me the recipe. I thought it would’ve been cool to share it also with you.

This recipe is good also for celiac people because I used kamut flour.

INGREDIENTS (for a small baking tray)

75 g butter

2 eggs

75 g self raising flour (or kamut flour)

90 g dark chocolate

180 g sugar (you can also use castor sugar)

salt

METHOD

Pre-heat oven to 175°C

Grease and line tin

Melt butter and chocolate over hot water or in a microwave, stirring at 20 seconds intervals

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I’m super happy. Last week was crazy and I had so many things to do. Like I told you in my last post I have an exam in a couple of weeks and I’m also trying to keep fit and get ready for the We Own The Night that will be on May 30th. As I promised I also took some pictures with some of my new outfits. Friday was my granny’s birthday so my family and I decided to go out for lunch on Saturday. On Sunday afternoon I went with my BFF to the theater and we attended to the Swan Lake Reloaded. It was…unique. I really really enjoyed the soundtrack and the dancers were amazing. I loved it. On Monday I learned at uni how to do a website homepage and I felt such a nerd. And yesterday morning I baked some brownies (I’ll give you the recipe in my next Allegralovescooking) and then I went out with some friends. Yes, I’m a bit overwhelmed but I can do it.

I also found out that MAC has revealed the lineup of the “Maleficent” inspired collection that will be available from June 2014.

There are also some interesting news from Dita Von Teese. She presented her new lingerie collection at Bloomingdale’s in New York, wearing a lovely vintage style black lace evening gown.

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I’m just a bit tired. Last week was a bit crazy and I had to do a lot of things. I’m sorry I didn’t post anything but I had to go shopping and I also had to get ready for a couple of special events (just kidding, I had to study a lot because I found out I have an exam in like three weeks. Yeeeeee).

By the way, this weekend was absolutely amazing. I had so much fun with my friends. On Friday night we decided to do a Star Wars marathon. Baaaaad idea. It’s like eating a piece of cake: you know that is a bad idea but you do it in any case. Oh well, my geeky part is showing up again. Cool.

Then on Saturday night I had a quite special birthday party. It was all about weirdness so I decided to wear a pajama and a necklace. Actually a super soft pajama made of a pink fleece material with a lot of little desserts drawn on it AND a necklace with some small ducks. That’s weird. I KNOW. Don’t judge me. I felt beautiful.

Last week I succeeded in going to the city center and I got a couple of things from H&M. If you follow me on Instagram (@allegoricalle) and on Twitter (@AllegraPiccio) you have already seen it. I’ll show you how I wore them in my next post so stay tuned.

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I’m super fine! Everything’s ok and in these days I’ve started to work out because the sun finally came out! Spring is coming and I’m very happy.

Yesterday was the Women’s Day. I’ve read a lot of amazing posts about it from some people I’ve never expected to and I was surprised.

By the way, one of the most important thing is to remember that we don’t have to be celebrated just on March 8th but also every other day of the year BECAUSE WE ARE FANTASTIC! Don’t ever forget this.

I have another little news for you: I’m going to take part in the competition called We Own The Night organized by Nike on May 30th in Milan.

As I told you in one of my posts I took part in another competition in September with a friend of mine (if you haven’t read that post yet). It was a 5 km running. But, you know, I like challenges. So I decided to try this one that will be a 10 km running. Like a suicide. Wish me luck!

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Yesterday I went to Warhol show at Palazzo Reale here in Milan and I loved it.

Andy Warhol was a leading American Pop artist who worked as a painter, graphic artist, filmmaker and producer. He moved to New York City in 1949 and began showing his work in galleries in the early ’50s. He can be considered as a pioneer of the Pop Art movement and he took inspiration from celebrity photos from magazines and tabloids, advertising made for mass consumer products and underground comics. During the 60s, he also founded his legendary studio, The Factory, making paintings of iconic American objects and attracting a coterie of writers, musicians, artists, and starlets to surround him. Warhol was one of the first artists to adopt the silkscreen printmaking process as a technique of painting. He died in February 22, 1987.

The exhibition was curated by Peter Brant, who was very young when he began to collect Warhol’s works. It was made of more 160 works, from Warhol’s first drawings to his amazing Last Suppers and his self-portraits. I really liked some of his well-known works such as Electric Chairs, his portrait of Mao Zedong and his flowers. I was finally able to see some of his masterpieces like Shot Light Blue Marilyn and Campbell’s Soup Can.

I was really fascinated by these paintings. If you are in Milan and you want to see them, hurry up because it ends on March 9th!